Orville Wright19th August, American
Co-inventor of First Successful Airplane
Marcel Proust10th July, French
French novelist
Rosa Luxemburg5th March, German, Polish
Marxist Theorist
Ernest Rutherford30th August, New Zealander, British
Physicist, Chemist
Friedrich Ebert4th February, German
Politician
Cordell Hull2nd October, American
Secretary of State, USA
James Weldon Johnson17th June, American
Author
Paul Valery30th October, French
Poet
Grazia Deledda27th September, Italian
Nobel Laureate in Literature
Jack Butler Yeats29th August, Irish, British
Irish artist
Victor Grignard6th May, French
Chemist
Guangxu Emperor14th August, Chinese
Emperor of China
Ioannis Metaxas12th April, Greek
Politician, Officer, Military personnel
Stephen Crane1st November, American
Writer, Journalist, Poet, Baseball player,
Pietro Badoglio28th September, Italian
Prime Minister
Karl Liebknecht13th January, German
Lawyer
Theodore Dreiser27th August, American
Novelist
Pop Warner5th April, American
Football coach
Guillermo Kahlo26th October, Mexican
Photographer
Emily Carr13th December, Canadian
Painter, Autobiographer
Arthur Griffith31st March, Irish
Former President of Dáil Éireann
Albert Lebrun29th August, French
Politician
David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty17th January, Irish, British
Politician, Military personnel
W. H. Davies3rd July, Welsh
British poet
John Millington Synge16th April, Irish
Playwright, Poet
Charles Freer Andrews12th February, British
Priest
Nicolae Iorga17th January, Romanian
politician, linguist, geopolitician, poet
Giacomo Balla18th July, Italian
Painter, Sculptor, Composer
Heinrich Mann27th March, Czech
Novelist
Fielding H. Yost30th April, American
American Football Player
Claus Schilling5th July, German
Military physician, Non-fiction writer
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Walter Bradford Cannon19th October, American
Physiologist
Kunikida Doppo30th August, Japanese
Novelist
James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon8th January, British, Northern Irish
Politician
František Kupka23rd September, Czech
Artist
Stjepan Radić11th June, Croatian
Political
Sergei Bulgakov28th June, Russian
Theologian
William McDougall22nd June, British
psychologist, university teacher
Alexander von Zemlinsky14th October, Austrian
Composer
William Stern29th April, German
Psychologist
John Langalibalele Dube22nd February, South African
Essayist
Émile Borel7th January, French
Mathematician, Politician, University teacher
Ernst Zermelo27th July, German
Mathematician, Philosopher, University teacher
Lyonel Feininger17th July, American
Painter, Artist
Georges Rouault27th May, French
Curator, Painter, Graphic artist
Aarnoud van Heemstra22nd July
Politician
Leonid Andreyev21st August, Russian
playwright, writer, journalist, lawyer
Maurice Garin3rd March, French, Italian
Bicycler
Lesya Ukrainka25th February, Ukrainian
Writer
Seebohm Rowntree7th July, British
Researcher
Margaret Floy Washburn25th July, American
Psychologist
Luisa Tetrazzini29th June, Italian
Soprano Singer
John Sloan2nd August, American
Artist
Christian Morgenstern6th May, German
Poet, Writer, Translator, Literary editor,
Newton D. Baker3rd December, American
Politician
Louise-Rose-Etiennette Gerard5th April, French
Oscar Stanton De Priest9th March, American
American Politician
Hubert Cecil Booth4th July, British
Engineer
John Chilembwe31st May, Malawian
Pastor
Kōtoku Shūsui5th November, Japanese
Social leader
Samuel Hopkins Adams26th January, American
Author
Florine Stettheimer19th August, American
Painter
Willem Mengelberg28th March, Dutch
Conductor
Clarence Hudson White8th April, American
Photographer
Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence28th December, British
Politician
José Enrique Rodó15th July, Uruguayan
Essayist
Florence R. Sabin9th November, American
Medical Scientist
Shiga Kiyoshi7th February, Japanese
Physician
John Henry Taylor19th March, British
Professional Golfer
Luigi Sturzo26th November, Italian
Priest
Dun Karm Psaila18th October, Maltese
Priest
Erich von Tschermak15th November, Austrian
Agronomist
Cyrus Avery31st August, American
Public servant
Ovide Decroly23rd July, Belgian
Teacher
Olga Preobrajenska2nd February, Russian
Ballerina
Lee Shubert25th March, American
Theatrical producer
Vernon L. Parrington3rd August, American
Literary historian
Giovanni Giorgi27th November, Italian
Physicist
Howard Taylor Ricketts9th February, American
Pathologist
Edgar J. Goodspeed23rd October, American
Theologian
Henry Kimball Hadley20th December, American
American composer
Eleanor Clarke Slagle13th October, American
Social worker
Camille Huysmans26th May, Belgian
Politician
B.M. Bower15th November, American
Author
Emiliano Chamorro Vargas11th May, Nicaraguan
Political Leader
Ralph Hodgson9th September, British
Poet
Harriet Boyd Hawes11th October, American
Archaeologist
Louise Homer30th April, American
Singer
Alexander Alexeyevich Gorsky6th August, Russian
Choreographer
Luigi Albertini19th October, Italian
Editor
Sakai Toshihiko15th January, Japanese
Writer
Serafín Álvarez Quintero26th March, Spanish
Writer
Frederick Converse5th January, American
Composer
Giuseppe Motta29th December, Swiss
Politician